Many Newly Discovered Species Are Already Gone
Scientists are uncovering previously unknown species
preserved in museum and botanical garden collections,
only to find that they no longer exist in the wild.
Katarina Zimmer, Wired, June 10, 2023
[www.wired.com]

Undark version of above article.
[undark.org]

The paywalled paper is:

Solórzano-Kraemer, M.M., Kunz, R., Hammel, J.U.,
Peñalver, E., Delclòs, X. and Engel, M.S., 2022. Stingless
bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in Holocene copal and
Defaunation resin from Eastern Africa indicate Recent
biodiversity change. The Holocene, 32(5), pp.414-432.
[journals.sagepub.com]

PDF of preprint of Solórzano-Kraemer et al. (2022)
[www.hereon.de]

Yours,

Paul H.

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
William Faulkner, Act 1, Scene III, Requiem for a Nun (1951)